I think baseball is the most philosophical of sport, in part because being a baseball fan is more a ‘way of life’ than other sports.  While the World Series is yet to be played, my Red Sox got eliminated last night and so it is time for reflection.  A. Bartlett Giamatti (former commissioner of baseball), has this very philosophical reflection on the game:

‘It breaks your heart.  It is designed to break your heart.  The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again.  And it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings.  And then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.  You count on it.  Rely on it to bumper the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive.  And just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.  And summer is gone.’